Interactive Video Art - Camille Utterback

After looking at some of the interactive video artists out there, I found Camille Utterback's work to be quite interesting and inspiring. Here is some of her work:





This piece uses video tracking and custom drawing software to allow the audience to interact and create their own piece of art

Final Project Thoughts

For my final project, I am very interested in using Isadora to explore the relation between sound and video. So far in class we have seen how powerful of a tool Isadora is and how it is basically Photoshop for real-time video, but I have noticed that it also has some very robust audio editing tools as well. I know that the possibilities are nearly endless, which almost makes deciding what exactly I am going to do a little difficult, but here are some of the ideas that I have as of now:

-A video sensor with a projection in the Fusion lab that only relays the video to the projector when there a certain audio decibel is reach. Example, walking into the room quietly would produce no projection of your image on the screen, yet with a raised level of audio, the projection would begin, perhaps even in proportion to the level of sound.

-Another idea is flipping the previous idea so that sound actually kills the audio feed, so that a noisy room will produce no video reproduction.

I need to spend the next week or so figuring out how some of the tools in Isadora can be used effectively when combined with each other, and if I can bring my ideas, or at least some version of it, to life.

AHH!!!

Apparently, the parts for our project still have not arrived off of the internet...

This is extremely unfortunate, but we will continue to march forward and pursue other class endeavors.

On the other hand, I had a lot of fun with Colin's "Pop Quiz", which was unlike any other pop quiz I have had before - put together a performance piece using the 3M mini projectors and iPod videos. What we came up with was an inverted shadow piece of our 4 group members, slightly resembling the iPod commercials, but each of us did a set shadow fighting and were able to "battle" each other on the walls in the Fusion lab. Pretty cool.

Attacking Inch Worm and other thoughts

It has been a interesting experience with these so-called "Attacking Inch Worm" kits that we assembled in class. For my modification I plan on trying to install a bright enough battery-powered LED right over the top of the solar panel in hopes that it will make the inch worm... inch. If that fails, I will have to come up with something else I suppose.

On a separate note, I really enjoyed the photos that I got to take of our class last time we met, I really think they will work well with our interface for our class's website, providing a unique yet uniform way of identifying each person's blog. I believe everyone was able to come up with their own way of posing with the chair, and the backdrop was excellent in working with our lighting setup.

Cheers!

Test Blog

Just making sure this is working